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"That’sthe door, not bothering to explain that he wouldn’t be dropping her off anywhere, at least not until this bullshit was done As long as she illing to keep quiet and let him pretend that she wasn’t there then he really didn’t feel the need to piss her off by enlightening her of the fact that she was bait

"I thought you said you weren’t going to speak to ainst the dashboard and cursed when the air conditioner didn’t kick in

"I also didn’t think I’d be stuck in a sauna roasting ave up trying to get the n any further

She’d been lucky to get it to go down three inches and noas time to face the facts

Chris hotwired a lemon

None of the electrical equipment worked None of the controls for the back doors worked at all The radio only came in on an AM Spanish talk show The air conditioner didn’t work and the headlights and windshield wipers turned off and on at will

"It’s not that bad," Chris muttered

"Not that bad?" Isabella de the hell away from him and cli him in the head in the process

"Hey!"

"Oooops, sorry," she ot at least one hit in after all those failed attempts earlier

"How exactly is this ‘not that bad’?" she asked, looking pointedly at his sweat slicked bare chest

"Hey, no one told you to wear a flannel shirt Take it off if you’re hot," Chris said, finishing off the last of the water they’d bought an hour ago

"I can’t," sheunder it"

"You’re kidding, right?" he asked, looking over to frown at her

"I wish I was," she mumbled pathetically

"Why the hell didn’t you put so else on? It’s not exactly winter, Munchkin When I sent you upstairs with Madison and Jill I told you to borrow so of theirs If you had just done as you were told you wouldn’t be sweating your ass off now," Chris snapped, sounding pretty pissed, which only pissed her offexhausted since she hadn’t had ht hours and she was starving since the only place he would stop at only sold beef jerky, pork rinds and large individually wrapped pickles She was hungry, she just wasn’t pork rind-beef jerky hungry Not yet anyway

"Look, you big jerk!" she snapped, turning in her seat to glare at him as she let him have it, "I did exactly as you asked I went upstairs with them and tried to try on some shirts, but none of the females in your family are as well-endowed as I am and I couldn’t pull the damn shirts over my tits if you must know!"

"Why hell didn’t you just take one oftone as he shifted in his seat, again

"Because I was freezing iven much of a choice Joshua tossed the shirt in the room and told me that I had to move my ass!"